Lukas 9:3

9:3 He ¹  said to them, “Take nothing for your ²  journey – no staff, ³  no bag, ⁴  no bread, no money, and do not take an extra tunic. ⁵ 

Lukas 12:28

12:28 And if ⁶  this is how God clothes the wild grass, ⁷  which is here ⁸  today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ⁹  how much more ¹⁰  will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

[9:3]  ¹ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:3]  ² tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[9:3]  ³ sn Mark 6:8 allows one staff. It might be that Luke’s summary (cf. Matt 10:9-10) means not taking an extra staff or that the expression is merely rhetorical for “traveling light” which has been rendered in two slightly different ways.

[9:3]  ⁴ tn Or “no traveler’s bag”; or possibly “no beggar’s bag” (L&N 6.145; BDAG 811 s.v. πήρα).

[9:3]  ⁵ tn Grk “have two tunics.” See the note on the word “tunics” in 3:11.

[12:28]  ⁶ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

[12:28]  ⁷ tn Grk “grass in the field.”

[12:28]  ⁸ tn Grk “which is in the field today.”

[12:28]  ⁹ tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.

[12:28]  sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

[12:28]  ¹⁰ sn The phrase how much more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.